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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Peter Yellowlees is a professor of psychiatry at the University of Queensland in Australia.  His lab has built a device that recreates the aural and visual hallucinations typical of schizophrenia.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jean Edward Smith is the author of "FDR," and tells Jim Fleming about Franklin Roosevelt's Supreme Court-packing scandal of 1937.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Robert Weinberg wrote “The Computers of Star Trek” with co-author Lois Gresh. Weinberg says that Star Trek was ambivalent about computers, and wildly inconsistent about how they worked.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Producer Rehman Tungekar talks with Anne Strainchamps about growing up in a multi-ethnic family.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Billy Collins reads the poem, "Reader," from his new collection of poems, "Aimless Love."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Quentin Schultze is the author of “Habits of the High Tech Heart.”  He says that we should resist “informationism” and try to develop wisdom.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Neuroscientist Jill Bolte Taylor nearly died from a massive stroke at the age of 37.  The experience taught her life lessons on how the mind perceives the world.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Travel writer Tony Perrotet has spent his career traveling all over the globe, but he skipped the Mediterranean tour, choosing Tierra del Fuego or the Amazon over Rome. But the discovery of an ancient guide book launched him on his most exotic journey yet, in the footsteps of the Ancients.

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